The following is an edited version of my initial remarks at a panel on Women’s Leadership Roles that was held on the first day of the RCA convention on Sunday, April 25, 2010. The panel consisted of Rabbi Michael Broyde, Rabbi Gidon Rothstein, Dr. Deena Zimmerman and myself. It was conceived and moderated by Rabbi [...]

Mistakes are sometimes self-contained, so that they affect nothing other than the issue they address. Sometimes, though, mistakes—or even just slight misrepresentations of the truth—feed on themselves and end up overshadowing or obscuring important other truths. Pesach and Shavuot, for me personally, are among the times when the latter is true, when our attachment to [...]

Redemption as Responsibility by Yuval Cherlow (39:3, Fall 2006) On the Shoulders of a Giant: Looking Back, Yet Looking Forward by Nathaniel Helfgot (39:3, Fall 2006) The Love of Israel as a Factor in Halakhic Decision Making in the Works of Rabbi Benzion Uziel by Hayyim David Halevy (24:3, Spring 1989) Arms Transfers, the State [...]

In 2008, Rabbi Moshe Bleich published in Tradition (41:1) a survey of halakhic positions regarding listening to music during the period of Sefirat ha-Omer (and the three weeks), which led to further correspondence between him and Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot regarding Rabbi Soloveitchik’s opinion. In addition to the positions cited in the article, one should add the recently [...]

In commemoration of Rav Soloveitchik zt”l’s yahrzeit, please see Walter Wurzburger, “Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik as Posek of Post-Modern Orthodoxy,” Tradition 29:1 (1994). We would also like to remind our readers that all of the Rav’s articles which he originally published in Tradition are available for free download on the archives page of Tradition’s website. Scroll [...]